You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.